[Bug 47658] New: The Sims Home Crafter doesn't launch ( 16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

Bug ID: 47658
           Summary: The Sims Home Crafter doesn't launch (16-bit color
                    mode error)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 4.14
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

The Sims Home Crafter tool doesn't launch in Wine and throws an error claiming
that it needs to be run in 16-bit color display mode.
The tool is free and publicly available (and I think doesn't require actual
game to be installed): https://archive.org/details/thesimshomecrafter_201907

[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter doesn't launch (16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

Alexandr Oleynikov  changed:

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[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter doesn't launch (16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

--- Comment #1 from Alexandr Oleynikov  ---
Art Studio is affected as well: https://archive.org/details/SimsArtStudio

[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter and Art Studio don't launch ( 16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

Alexandr Oleynikov  changed:

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            Summary|The Sims Home Crafter       |The Sims Home Crafter and
                   |doesn't launch (16-bit      |Art Studio don't launch
                   |color mode error)           |(16-bit color mode error)

[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter and Art Studio don't launch ( 16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

Paul Gofman  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Paul Gofman  ---
I tried with HomeCrafter. It doesn't launch exactly the same way on Windows 7
until you really set display color depth to 16 bit. You have to do the same on
Linux. I managed to do that with running a separate X server, like this (from
console terminal, switched to that with Ctrl + Alt + F3):

xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :3 -ac -depth 16

You may also need 'export DISPLAY=:3' in that terminal.

Then the program starts just fine for me.

This environment might be of course set up to something more convenient than a
bare X with a terminal (like running some window manager).

[Bug 47658] The Sims Home Crafter and Art Studio don't launch ( 16-bit color mode error)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47658

--- Comment #3 from Alexandr Oleynikov  ---
(In reply to Paul Gofman from comment #2)
> I tried with HomeCrafter. It doesn't launch exactly the same way on Windows
> 7 until you really set display color depth to 16 bit. You have to do the
> same on Linux. I managed to do that with running a separate X server, like
> this (from console terminal, switched to that with Ctrl + Alt + F3):
>
> xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :3 -ac -depth 16
>
> You may also need 'export DISPLAY=:3' in that terminal.
>
> Then the program starts just fine for me.
>
> This environment might be of course set up to something more convenient than
> a bare X with a terminal (like running some window manager).

True, but I think it's very inconvenient, especially compared to Windows, which
has an executable parameter that allows to launch it in limited color mode. :(
Plus, I imagine that might not be possible to do on something like (x)Wayland
or macOS.